I found I was able to complete this in a few hours but I took breaks in between because this game will have you dying and restarting a lot! And if you want those gems? Good luck getting them all, will require some thought and figuring out where all the Evert points are in levels to get some (namely levels 5 and 7.) A couple of the hidden achievements are equally as hard (I have to stand where on which layer for a letter?!)

The graphics are cute and horrifying on layers 6 and 7 but namely 8. -8 is such a scary layer and the music does not help! The soundtrack is really nice as well and you need your volume up to hear -7, it's heartbeats and at that, very faint heart beats which will make most players think layer 7 has NO soundtrack to it.

The endings were just lovely, 3 endings, 1 of them is hidden and very hard to get. Are you the monster, is she a monster, are you stones, or is this all a metaphor for a atomic bomb? Hue hue hue, by the way "Metaphor for a Atomic Bomb" is an achievement and a shoutout to Braid. :)

Lots of spoilers in my review but overall, good game and the price is about right. I avoided picking it up for a long time because it looked to be all lollipops and rainbows, glad to see I wasn't entirely wrong there. Discount or full price, worth picking up and playing if you enjoy games that mess with your mind a bit.

Eversion is a puzzle platformer, but discovering the story and setting are an important part of the game.

What makes this game very enjoyable is that the puzzling and the platforming are fun, but never get in the way of the discovering by keeping you stuck at one part to long:

There are some tricky platforming parts, but nothing insane. Also, respawns are fast, lives are infinite, and checkpoints are conveniently placed.

The puzzles are easy to figure out. They don't require pen & paper or anything, just a few clever uses of the game mechanics.

The game is quite short, as it should be. When the game mechanics are exhausted, it doesn't grind on, it just wraps it up.

The graphics are simple, but do a good job portraying the unique setting. A setting that I will not describe, because it would sound boring, but when you play the game it just works so very well. The same goes for the music: simple, but effective.

I recommend this game to anyone who can enjoy the creativity that went into this game, and isn't completely horrible at platformers.

Eversion is, at it's core, an indie platformer/puzzle game. You play as Zee-Tee the Astrik (*), who is on a quest to save Princess Nehema, who has been captured by things that look a lot like Goombas. Along the way, Zee-Tee can evert to different "layers" of the world by pressing SPACE in certain areas, Things are quite different in each eversion layer, so everting is often required to progress.

Along the way, Zee-Tee can challenge himself by trying to collect all 240 gems, which will often require backtracking at certain eversion layers. Thankfully, your gems save even if you quit the level or die within, which is great for some of the harder levels.

The only real complaint I have about this game is how short it is. The game can easily be 100%ed in an hour, but if it is your first time playing, it'll probably take 2 hours or so to collect all of the gems and rescue the Princess.

All in all, Eversion is a very interesting platformer that is worth taking a look at. If you want to try the game out before you spend 5 dollars on it, the creator has a freeware version on his website. It doesn't have achievements and it's missing a handful of time attack levels, but it should get you used to the game.

I wouldn't exactly reccomend this game at it's full price, because it's very short, and can be completed (and 100%'d!) in one sitting.

However, more old-school retro platformers should play out more like this. Decently challenging enough gameplay, intriguing mechanic thrown in for the 'puzzle' part of this puzzle platformer (I can't really talk about it without spoiling the game).

This innocent little number has something not innocent at all, Playablility. It takes some getting used to, theres no half jumping. Its either all or nothing - which can cause alot of deaths, but theres no life limit (thankfully) This was a very good pick and i highly recommend it.

Looks can be decieving, to some it will be less horror and more so a surprising puzzle ish kind of platformer. The only thing that needs to be known about this title is that it includes quotes from various H.P. Lovecraft stories, idealy at the mountains of madness and that is reason enough for me to recommend this as a nice, short, contending horror title

Edit: after looking at the global achievements, I saw that most people who playe the game, never even got down into the nitty gritty portion of it that made it what it was, and that makes me kinda upset ya know? I mean it's not the creators fault that this is what actually is the lowest selling Lovecraft inspired game I mean LOOK at the main page, it says nothing of the horrors to come other than a glimmer! I want this to be a best selling it's great that more it's review status recently went from positive to very but I just don't feel that's enough for it. But if you're someone who can't get enough lovecraftian style anything, I highly reccomend this glistening gemstone of evil to you for the measily price of $4.99

It's hard to review such a game without spoiling, all i can say is if you liked the freeware version, you WILL enjoy the updated version here, and enjoy hunting around for the small bit of things added in this versions

My friend turned me onto this. At first I thought it was a cutsie platformer. And then I noticed it had a cute little twist with the first layer and I smiled at the implied notion that this cutsie world wasn't all it was cracked up to be. I pressed forward. Each new layer I discovered, I become more and more unsettled. What was this world? why was I adventuring through it? what was my goal? Who was I in all of this?

Further and further I ventured into the rabbit hole, and deeper into the insantity I shifted.

I slowly came to the conclusion that this was my own personal hell, and I was paying for past sins.

Long story short, I'm not a fan of platformers, but this was still an awesome game. 10/10